Sparks, NV, USA
Morphing unidentified sky-object seen East of Sparks, NV, the evening of 2-18-15.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 1440s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-02-18
- Where
- Sparks, NV, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 24 minutes
- Geo
- 39.535, -119.753 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-sparks-nv-2015-8cfbe2
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- This is one of 38 reports logged in Sparks, NV.
- This case is one of 111 Nevada reports filed in 2015.
- Changing craft made up 2.4% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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